Biden hosts Manchin and Sinema at White House to push for voting rights reforme
Source: Axios
Why it matters: Biden and other Democrats want the Senate's filibuster rules changed in order to pass voting rights legislation.
A White House spokesperson said Biden had "a candid and respectful exchange of views about voting rights" with Manchin and Sinema, according to a pool report.
Read more: https://www.axios.com/biden-manchin-sinema-voting-rights-reform-ad2237db-64f3-450c-9dad-6894189f93e5.html
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)Colgate 64
(14,732 posts)long enough to hear what the President is saying to her. It was reported earlier that, at the President's meeting with Senate Democrats on the same topic she rarely stopped looking at her phone while he was speaking.
vercetti2021
(10,156 posts)I could only wish
unblock
(52,253 posts)Damn that tactic doesn't work so well with masks and social distancing.
LonePirate
(13,426 posts)If judicial appointments werent so critical, Biden would likely rip into them publicly or ask Schumer to remove them from committees. However Manchin would just change parties and Sinema would not care because she is there to serve her donors and not the public.
SunSeeker
(51,574 posts)He knows his only chance at elected office is to run as a Democrat.
It's Sinema who looks ready to flip to the GOP.
PortTack
(32,778 posts)Bisexual. They really dont want her. The powers that be in the AZ dem party did their best to warn ppl not to go with her...we should have listened
Shes toast..the AZ Dems are furious..they worked really hard for her and this is how she repays them. They are already talking about who the best primary challenger would be
thesquanderer
(11,990 posts)PortTack
(32,778 posts)SunSeeker
(51,574 posts)thesquanderer
(11,990 posts)SunSeeker
(51,574 posts)The WV Dem.challenger would sap too many votes for Manchin to win over any GOP challenger.
thesquanderer
(11,990 posts)...what Angus King pulls off in Maine, or what Lieberman pulled off in CT.
thesquanderer
(11,990 posts)Fiendish Thingy
(15,624 posts)Biden needs to start flipping furniture and throwing vases.
PortTack
(32,778 posts)msfiddlestix
(7,282 posts)qazplm135
(7,447 posts)they going to meet to exchange candid and respectful views?
At least change the verbiage up guys.
I would certainly have wanted to be a fly on the wall though, but everyone who can pressure them has pressured them.
kacekwl
(7,017 posts)dirt on these two. The Republicans would have blackmailed these two out of office by now if they were in this position. Shocking you say, I'm no longer shock able. We haven't realized that this a war for democracy. I'm tired of billionaires and those paid by them ruining my country.
FBaggins
(26,748 posts)If either of them is "blackmailed out of office"... we immediately lose the Senate majority.
kacekwl
(7,017 posts)real democrats could replace them.
FBaggins
(26,748 posts)The moment one of them resigns, the senate is now 50-49 (or 50-48) republican. Schumer is no longer in control.
Then the governor of WV/AZ (both republicans) appoints a replacement who hold the seat at least through November (becoming the incumbent for that race) and the Senate is now 52-48 republican.
Winning back AZ would be 50/50 at best. Winning back WV is effectively impossible for the foreseeable future.